2022-2023 CAPP Acquisitions
Description
Featuring Rachel Garber Cole, Homosocial, Megan Lewis, Beverly Price, Gabriella Vainsencher, Ingrid Weyland, Jenny Wu.
All completed within the last decade, these works reflect the principles adopted by the 2022-2023 CAPP Committee to guide their collection-building: critical compassion, process as art, equitable sourcing, and deliberative dialogue. The new acquisitions span a range of media including painting, photography, video, and print, and represent artists from the DMV region and beyond.
2022-2023 CAPP Committee: Emily Boa, Isabella Chilcoat, Rachel (Rae) Leonberger, Alicia Perkovich, Raphael Ukpelegbu
All completed within the last decade, these works reflect the principles adopted by the 2022-2023 CAPP Committee to guide their collection-building: critical compassion, process as art, equitable sourcing, and deliberative dialogue. The new acquisitions span a range of media including painting, photography, video, and print, and represent artists from the DMV region and beyond.
2022-2023 CAPP Committee: Emily Boa, Isabella Chilcoat, Rachel (Rae) Leonberger, Alicia Perkovich, Raphael Ukpelegbu
Collection Items
Together
Megan Lewis (b. 1989) is a figurative multidisciplinary artist, creating paintings and murals that tell stories with a critical view on contemporary cultural issues. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland and studied at Ringling College of Art and…
Hourglass
Buenos Aires-born, Tel Aviv-raised artist Gabriela Vainsencher approaches her sculptures as extensions of herself as a woman and a mother, rooted in the ancient traditions of ceramics. Recognizing her medium’s inherent connection to the earth,…
Topographies of Fragility V
Ingrid Weyland’s Topographies of Fragility series emerged from the artist’s journey from the south of Argentina to Greenland’s ice sheets. These untouched, unspoiled, surreal, immense landscapes inspired Weyland to try to encapsulate their mood and…
Magically Found $768,000,000,000
Jenny Wu constructs her paintings through a complex process which involves pouring thick coats of latex paint onto a glass surface, one color at a time, and waiting for each layer to dry before moving on to the next. The dried paint is then cut to…
Processing Gender Aspirations
Homosocial, a multimedia project created by Brian Van Camerik, celebrates same-gendered couples and queer individuals of the past by transforming found, vintage photographs into objects which represent queer gender and sexuality. Processing Gender…
Youthful Memories (from the "Royal Blue" series)
![Youthful Memories (from the "Royal Blue" series)](https://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/files/square_thumbnails/5aff41124d0059b19105c6119a90a6f1.jpg "Youthful Memories (from the "Royal Blue" series)")
Beverly Price began exploring photography in 2016 as she witnessed the rapid gentrification of her birthplace of Washington, DC. She decided to pick up the camera to document the stories of her fellow DC natives. The Royal Blue Series follows the…
Holding on to Innocence (from the "Royal Blue" series)
![Holding on to Innocence (from the "Royal Blue" series)](https://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/files/square_thumbnails/fa23e45f4f265b015cdff449cee791e1.jpg "Holding on to Innocence (from the "Royal Blue" series)")
Beverly Price began exploring photography in 2016 as she witnessed the rapid gentrification of her birthplace of Washington, DC. She decided to pick up the camera to document the stories of her fellow DC natives. The Royal Blue Series follows the…
We the Children (from the "Royal Blue" series)
![We the Children (from the "Royal Blue" series)](https://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/files/square_thumbnails/d9bd71259a7b582bb0890c6bf33f40bb.jpg "We the Children (from the "Royal Blue" series)")
Beverly Price began exploring photography in 2016 as she witnessed the rapid gentrification of her birthplace of Washington, DC. She decided to pick up the camera to document the stories of her fellow DC natives. The Royal Blue Series follows the…
Questions For a Dinosaur
Rachel Garber Cole’s projects are character-based, nonlinear narratives that undermine notions of authority and objectivity. Her performances utilize constructed sets, often made from household and craft materials, which foster a sense of play and…